Yarbrough

23,825 people in the United States were counted with the surname Yarbrough in the 2020 census, making it the 1,458th most common in the country. That is about one person in 12,500.

By the numbers

People: 23,825
Rank: 1,458th
How common: 1 in 12,500
Per 100,000: 8.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Habitational surname, from Yarborough and Yarburgh in Lincolnshire, from a compound of Old English eorþe (“earth”) + burh (“stronghold”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Yarbrough described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 67.1%
Black, not Hispanic 23.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Yarbrough

William Yarbrough (born 1989)American soccer player
Cedric Yarbrough (born 1973)American actor, comedian

People named Yarbrough with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Yarbrough

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.